[AISWorld] CfP : MODELS 2011 Doctoral Symposium : Wellington, New Zealand, October 2011

[Joerg Evermann]

Call for papers: MODELS 2011 Doctoral Symposium

*Goals*

The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to provide a forum in which PhD
students can present their work in progress and to foster the role of
MODELS as a premier venue for research in model-driven engineering. The
symposium aims to support students by providing independent and
constructive feedback about their already completed and, more
importantly, planned research work. The symposium will be accompanied by
prominent professors in the field of model-driven engineering who will
actively participate in critical discussions. The workshop lasts for a
whole day and will be able to accommodate 6 to 8 students.

*Scope*

The technical scope of the symposium covers all topics of MODELS 2011
http://www.modelsconference.org/

*Submissions*

Submissions are invited from PhD students who have settled on a PhD
topic, but are still sufficiently far away from completion to be able to
take full advantage of the given feedback (typically, this means that,
at the time of the symposium, students should be at least one year away
from completion). Submissions must be in English, no longer than eight
(8) pages in the Springer LNCS style, and include a title and the full
contact information of the author (name, email address, and postal
address).

Submissions must be made using EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=drsympmodel11


Submissions should describe research-in-progress that is meant to lead
to a PhD dissertation. The submission should use the following
structure, describing:

- Problem: The problem the research intends to solve, the target
audience of this research, and a motivation of why the problem is
important and needs to be solved.

- Related work: A review of the relevant related work with an emphasis
of how the proposed approach is different and what advantages it has
over the existing state of the art.
- Proposed solution: A description of the proposed solution and which
other work (e.g., in the form of methods or tools) it depends on.
- Preliminary work: A description of the work to-date and results
achieved so far.
- Expected contributions: A list of the expected contributions to both
theory and practice.
- Plan for evaluation and validation: A description of how it will be
shown that the work does indeed solve the targeted problem and is
superior to the existing state of the art (e.g. prototyping, industry
case studies, user studies, experiments).
- Current status: The current status of the work and a planned timeline
for completion.

*Review and evaluation*

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and
clarity. Each submission will receive at least 3 reviews. Admission is
limited to 6 to 8 Ph.D. students. Specifically, the review criteria
committee using the following criteria:

- Overall quality of the submission itself (e.g., clarity, and
precision, relative to the stage of the research).
- Adequacy of the problem statement, the solution description, the
expected contributions, the plan for evaluation, and the review of
related work.
- Originality of the proposed solution.
- Significance and relevance of the problem and proposed solution to
both theory and practice in model-driven engineering.

The participants of the doctoral symposium are required to register for
the main conference. The symposium takes place in the context of the
MODELS conference in Welligton, New Zealand.

*Participating Faculty*

To be announced.

*Proceedings*

Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings and made
available on the World Wide Web.

*Important dates*

Submission:	Sunday June 26, 2011
Notification:	July 24, 2011
Symposium:	October 16, 2011

*Organizers*

- Joerg Evermann (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
- Ivan Porres (Abo Akademi University, Finland)

For further information, please send email to
models2011docsym at easychair.org.
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